Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-04-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1t is not good policy to say things
have repeated. 1t is the little things
that tell.--Boston Transcript.
Piedmont. Ca, comes forward with
the claim of having within its limits
tree that drops snow from its
branches at regular intervals.
The oldest bank building in this
country is situated in Albany, n. Y. 1t
was erected in 1903, and has been oc-
cupied by one concern ever since
Albany Journal
Some persons have the habit of ex-
claiming, Don't talk to me-" They
should reflect that possibly the offender
would not, only he has got to talk or
bust.--M. Y, Mail.
AT Port Jervis, N. Y, recently the
railroad ticket agent was t1oored by
the following query from we'll
now leave before the one going nextP"
There are about 200, 900 men inter-
ested in brass bands, either as players or
makers of instruments. There are
$4,000 brass bands in this country at
the present time, and their number is
rapidly increasingly. Y. San.
-Eighty-fve persons climbed Mount
Blanc last year. Ten of these were
Americans. They found plenty of
plenty of room where the mass of man
kind does not care to 60 boston Post.
The average mans opinion of hui
manity is not tlattering. In his heart
of hearts he is aware that he is himself
remarkably poor lot, and yet he con-
siders himself, on the whole, little
tier than anybody else.-M Y. Times.
The people of the United States pay
more for Brazilian coffee than the value
Of all the merchandise exported to the
whole of South America. The coffee
costs $50, 100000. The exports are
little less than $2S, 900, 000.-- Chicago
Times.
A St. John IN. b. liquor dealer
who has been amusing himself by
blowing horns and otherwise disturb
ing the Salvation Army when they
pass his place, was rotten-egged re-
Gently by a number of young men who
were DESTROYS OF teaching him better
sense.
Henry Thornton moved his sitting
room stove to the smoke-house last
April. The other day he cleaned it,
preparatory to putting it'll again, and
found among the ashes live Goals that
must have been smoldering for six
months. He had burned hickory
wood in the stove.-N. Y. Herald.
"A tramp who was jailed in Indiana
the other day had three scars from bull
let's, two bruises from clubs, seven fresh
dog-bites and black eye, and yet he
kicked vigorously about being put into
a warm room where he would have
plenty to eat and find perfect rest for
the next sixty days. Detroit Free Press.
The King of Cambodia, according
| to the correspondent of Paris Jour
nal, has three hundred wives, chosen
| from the handsomest women in the
whole country. The entire population
and territory belong to the King. All
the Cambodians are the Kings tear
men" or slaves, and pay him rents.
The King himself belongs to the French
ResidentGeneral.
"A Georgia paper publishes as truth
the story of a Marion County farmer
who became satisfied that he had a
tapeworm. So he carefully baited a
little fishhook, tied short line to it,
| swallowed the hook and tied the line to
his button hole. Then he waited for a
bite. BY and by he thought he had
one and yanked the line; the hook
caught in his throat and had to be dug
out. He didn't catch the worm.
Murder or plotting to murder, is
heinous crime the world over. If a
man advises another or pays another
to commit murder it is as difficult for
him to escape punishment as it would
be did he commit the murder himself.
If a man murders another and fees
the country to escape punishment in
ternational laws contemplate his re-
turn to the scene of the murder foi
punishment Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A San Diego citizen boughta ticket
for San Francisco and sat down on tho
pier until the boat should be ready tc
start He became much interested in
the work going on, the passengers hur
rying down, the gangplank pulled in
and the lines cast off, and expressed
pleasure at the sight of the big steamer
as she left the pier. Then he remem
, bered he wasn't on board, but his bag
gage was, and his language was some
thing shocking.-San Francisco Chron
icle.
The ingenuity of our fellow beln:
is great; a man with two wooden leg
has placed himself upon perfec
; equality, as to covering ground quick
w. with any other individual who nos
sesses two flesh, bone. muscle an,
! blood combinations. He was seel
scudding along Broadway one mornin,
: this week on a tricycle., which he droy
to perfection by means of his woodel
3 pins, which were fastened to the shaft
, to prevent slipping N. Y. Herald.
The average duration of life ha
been made the subject of fresh invest
cation by German statistician, VIII
D | finds that the lowest average is for tn